“Invisible Work” in the Indian Media Industries

There is a long history of television and film research that highlights the essential roles audiences play in everyday production decisions. Based largely on Western media industries, these studies’ investigations of producer–audience relationships have revolved predominantly around the market concerns of liberal media models. So how do producer–audience relationships work when it comes to illiberal contexts of media production? Using Singapore as a case study, this article argues that existing approaches to producer–audience relations largely based on liberal media industries like Hollywood are insufficient for thinking through audience power in everyday media production in illiberal contexts. Drawing on insights from affect theory, I examine the materials gathered during an immersive ethnography of the writing process of a Singaporean television drama and propose conceptualizing audiences as an ‘affective superaddressee’, as a productive way to think about the work that situational audiences do in everyday media production in illiberal contexts.

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Vulnerable bodies and invisible work: The Covid-19 pandemic and social reproduction

International Journal of Discrimination and the Law ◽

10.1177/13582291211031371 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 135822912110313

Author(s):

Ellen Gordon-Bouvier

Keyword(s):

Social Reproduction ◽

The State ◽

Family Unit ◽

State Response ◽

The Past ◽

Invisible Work ◽

The Uk ◽

Liberal Individualism

The restrained state has always sought to devalue socially reproductive work, often consigning it to the private family unit, where it is viewed as a natural part of female relational roles. This marginalisation of social reproduction adversely affects those performing it and reduces their resilience to vulnerability. The pandemic has largely shattered the liberal illusions of autonomous personhood and state restraint. The reality of our universal embodied vulnerability has now become impossible to ignore, and society’s reliance on socially reproductive work has therefore been pushed into public view. However, the pandemic has also exacerbated harms and pressures for those performing paid and unpaid social reproduction, creating a crisis that demands an urgent state response. As it is argued in this paper, the UK response to date has been inadequate, illustrating an unwillingness to abandon familiar principles of liberal individualism. However, the pandemic has also created a climate of exceptionality, which has prompted even the most neoliberal of states to consider measures that in the past would have been dismissed. In this paper, it is imagined how the state can use this opportunity to become more responsive and improve the resilience of social reproduction workers, both inside and outside the home.

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Invisible Work: Borges and Translation

Hispanic Review ◽

10.2307/3247028 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 71 (4) ◽

pp. 620

Author(s):

Juan Jose Barrientos ◽

Efrain Kristal

Keyword(s):

Invisible Work

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Re-Visiting Tom O’Regan’s Australian Television Culture: Why Media Ownership, Regulation and Policy Still Matter

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x211010782 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 180 (1) ◽

pp. 17-23

Author(s):

Anna Potter

Keyword(s):

Media Industries ◽

Media Policy ◽

Television Studies ◽

Media Ownership ◽

Ownership Structures ◽

Analytical Frameworks

Almost 30 years after its publication, Tom O’Regan’s innovative and ambitious, multi-layered analysis of Australian television culture remains an important text for contemporary scholars of television studies, cultural and communications studies, and media industries. In this article, I re-visit the multiple lessons of value that we can take from Australian Television Culture and its distinctive analytical frameworks. Two of the book’s key areas of focus, media ownership structures, and media policy and regulation are explored further, including in work Tom and I would go on to do together.

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Approaching media industries comparatively: A case study of streaming

International Journal of Cultural Studies ◽

10.1177/1367877918813245 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 349-366 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Daniel Herbert ◽

Amanda D. Lotz ◽

Lee Marshall

Keyword(s):

Media Industries ◽

Business Practices ◽

Media Industry ◽

Consumer Experience ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Comparative Media ◽

The Us ◽

Critical Media ◽

Music Film ◽

Industry Comparison

Although ‘streaming’ media has become increasingly common across multiple media industries, significant differences underpin the industrial practices that allow this behavior and explain discrepant experiences of internet distribution across industries. This article uses collaborative comparative media industry analysis to investigate the commonalities and variations among streaming in the US music, film, and television industries to assess the viability of theorizing the cultural implications of streaming as a consistent phenomenon across media industries. The article explores the consistencies and divergences of streaming among consumer experience, business practices, and textual implications to compare how established uses, production practices, and media content have been affected by internet distribution. Such detailed industry comparison is a novel approach, and the article also considers the methodological value of rigorous collaboration among scholars expert in different media industries. The analysis is based on industry data and practices obtained through trade press, industry reports, and interviews with media workers consistent with a critical media industries approach.

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“It’s Hard Work”: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to Reconceptualizing “Work” in the Cancer Context

Qualitative Health Research ◽

10.1177/1049732318803885 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 29 (5) ◽

pp. 758-773 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Cheryl Pritlove ◽

Parissa Safai ◽

Jan E. Angus ◽

Pat Armstrong ◽

Jennifer M. Jones ◽

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Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Identity Work ◽

Work Identity ◽

Invisible Work ◽

Paid Employment ◽

Unpaid Labor ◽

Everyday Work ◽

Coordination Work ◽

Living With Cancer ◽

Political Economy Approach

Within mainstream cancer literature, policy documents, and clinical practice, “work” is typically characterized as being synonymous with paid employment, and the problem of work is situated within the “return to work” discourse. The work that patients perform in managing their health, care, and everyday life at times of illness, however, is largely overlooked and unsupported. Drawing on feminist political economy theory, we report on a qualitative study of 12 women living with cancer. Major findings show that the work of patienthood cut across multiple fields of practice and included both paid and unpaid labor. The most prevalent types of work included illness work, body work, identity work, everyday work, paid employment and/or the work of maintaining income, and coordination work. The findings of this study disrupt popular conceptualizations of work and illuminate the nuanced and often invisible work that cancer patients may encounter, and the health consequences and inequities therein.

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